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Very Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game promises the best of both worlds, great gameplay for those who like the arcade style action and great management for those who enjoy running the team. While the gameplay was decent it pales in comparison to some of the other top baseball games available. The general manager mode is supposedly based on Baseball Mogul. While it may be it lacks any of the depth found in Baseball Mogul. The statistics in this game are anemic. You can't even pull up a box score for simulated games. For those of us baseball fans who have been waiting for a game with great action and management ... the wait continues.

Thumbs Down form 2001 MSB

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: April 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

........... The game has horrible baserunning, graphicsare sub-par compared to other baseball games, constantly freezes(quite Ironic that it can't operate properly with the operating system that they wrote), and worse of all there is no draft. END

Not a major upgrade from the previous version.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: April 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It would seem as though the folks at Wizbang (the developers of the title in question) were quite busy basking in the success of Baseball 2000, because they didn't spend much time improving it for the new year.

The first thing I do with any baseball game is create a player with my own name, crank up all of the stats to their maximum levels, and then go have a 4 home run game against Pedro Martinez. Typically this is accomplished via a ratings system. Baseball 2001's greatest new feature in my opinion is the ability to define and edit players based on actual statistics, rather than ratings. Instead of saying player x has a power rating of 99, you can say player x hit 74 home runs last year. This allows much more control for the statistics engine of the game to work with.

The feature, which is reminiscent of the Tony LaRussa baseball series of the early 90s (which was the best graphical baseball simulation ever in my humble opinion) is about all that is new in the game.

I honestly cannot see any difference in the graphics engine. The players (some of which have actual rendered faces) look very much the same; aside from some improvements in the stadium details, the game is graphically identical to BB2000.

More frustrating is the fact that the game is very buggy, and the same bugs that annoyed me in BB2000 have reappeared in the new version. For example, a common problem is a batter which steps up to the plate standing on the plate and gets hit every time! The game freezes at least once for every 3-4 games that I play. The extra task of having to save the game every 1/2 innning is very frustrating, and the crashes require a full reboot of the sytem.

I would not recommend this game to anybody that already owns the 2000 version, as it is much the same.

Could be better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: August 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This was the first baseball sim game I've bought since Tony LaRussa 1996 edition. When Tony 96 came out, it was well ahead of its time, stats galore, from monthly breakdowns and head to head match ups. Even the graphics were good. With Microsoft advertising its mogul feature, I figured that this game would be great. I was way off. Simulation is almost ridiculous, outscoring opponents 14-0 every game gets boring, not enough stat tracking to keep me happy, can't preview line up before game time for managers who like to platoon players. On the other hand, Graphics and commentary are above average. If you are a baseball fan who isn't into the managing aspect of a game, this game is for you. But a realism geek like myself was very disapointed. High Heat Baseball 2001 is infinite times better.

Good gameplay for serious gamers, bad stats for stat freaks.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The last baseball sim I had was FPS: Baseball Pro about five years ago, and there's never been anything like it. It generated stats like the Elias Sports Bureau and the gameplay was ahead of its time. Its features--career mode, MVP list, World Series history, Hall of Fame, etc.--made it a real fantasy league. Baseball 2001 has come closest to it, though it is still relatively far behind. The game is not full of bugs, unless you play it hard core all day, but not many people do or should. The Mogul technology is nice, but it really doesn't make me feel like I'm in control of my team. In managing finances, you use points. Why not cash? The oversimplification is an insult.

A little less than advertised

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The wealth of Career and stat-tracking features is a plus, but I was very turned off by the gameplay and graphics. If more attention was put into the presentation of the graphics and ease of gameplay this would be a real winner.

Entertaining, Replayable Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are decent, the playing is lots of fun, but the stats could be better. As a hardcore baseball fan, I want slugging percentage ect... It is, however, a thoroughly entertaining game to play and the realism is top notch. Not the best on the market, but well worth the price.

1 of best baseball simulators

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: April 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

In Baseball 2001 you can enjoy straight out baseball unlike the triple play series. TP2001 and Triple Play are much more advanced in features such as unique batting stances and player faces but it lacks realistic gameplay. Baseball 2001 doesn't include loud explotion when a homerun is hit and the commentary is much less repetitive. Microsoft Baseball is one of the few pc baseball games where you control where you swing. This makes the game more challenging and keeps you interested in the game. Although if you do not like this setting you can turn it off. The stadiums are amazing in this game but the players don't compare to TPB or High Heat 2002. When managing a season player trades and free agents are much more realistic because you have certain money that you make. If you want true gameplay and don't mind giving up a little for graphics by this, but if you want unrealistic arcade games go with the triple play series.

P.S.-The rosters aren't nearly as updated as High Heat 2002 or even Triple Play, but in the 2000 game you can update your rosters at Microsoft.

Its straight

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: May 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I buy a baseball video game, I look for it to be challenging on its hardest level, if it doesnt do that for me, I won't play the game too much. I recently played this game when I was at my friends house and I must say it was somewhat of a challenge, maybe because i don't play too much computer baseball. Ive always played it on actual video game systems. What I thought was unique was the fact that you can call up actual AAA players. I have not seen that in other video games, at least for video game systems. Yes, the game will freeze during points and it gets annoying but that happens in a lot of computer video games. I must admit, I've never seen a home run derby when the batter gets 1000 outs. I certainly hope this game stays challenging because when I had MLB 2000 for playstation I was blowing out teams by 20+ runs every game on the hardest level and it just got really boring. Personally I liked the game a lot more because there was a Red Sox player on the cover of it (Nomar), and I am a big Red Sox fan.

Overall this game is worth the price it sells for. If your going to play a lot of games in a row, make the limit at about 4-5 games or you might get sick of it, like any other video game.

Not terrific, but good.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: June 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Microsoft Baseball 2001 is a pretty good baseball game but not what you might expect. The graphics are good the faces of the baseball players are fantastic but the commentary is horrible. Some of the stuff they say has no relation to what's happening in the baseball game.

To me Microsoft Baseball 2001 lacks on giving the baseball felling that other baseball games do.

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